Improvement ih apparatus for enameling checkers



1. s. HYATT', J. w. HYATT & c. MJHY ATT. v Improvement in- Apparatusfor-Enameling Checkers, & c.f

No.1285'729. e

Patented July 9,1872."

I. SMITH HYATT, JOHN W. HYHATT, em onARLEs' M. HYATT, 0F ALBANY, NEWYORK, ASSIGNORS TO THE EMBossINe COMPANY, or SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR ENAELING CHECKERS', &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,729, dated July 9,187 2.

SPECIFICATION.

' I We, 1. SMITH HYATT, JOHN W. HYATT,

and CHARLES M. HYATT, all of the city and county of Albany,and State ofNewYork, have invented certain Improvements in Apparatus fforEnamelin gCheckers, Dominos, &c.,' of which the following is a specification.

Our, invention relates to an apparatus by which checkers, .dominos, andsimilar small blocks or pieces of wood can be readily painted or coatedwith enamel and dried with great convenience and facility withoutrequiring the articles to be separately handled during the process orafter the enamel has ."been applied thereto. The invention consists,first, in the combinationof a rack or frame provided with suitable cellsor pockets to receive the check- I ers or other articles to be enameled,and a frame or rackprovided with projecting needles,

arranged to correspond withthe pockets in the former rack, so that bypressing the needie-frame down upon the rack containing the checkers thelatter will be impaled, each, on

the point of one of the needles, so as to adhere thereto and be removedwith the needle-frame; second, of a revolvingreel of polygonal shapecombined with and adapted to receive the racks and impaled checkers,whereby the paint or enamel on the latter is prevented by the rotationof the reel from settling in drops, as would be the case if they wereleft stationary; third,

in the combination, with such revolving-reel and checkers, of racks of abasin or other suitablereceptacle for the enameling liquid, ar-

ranged beneath the reel, and provided with suitable mechanism forraising and lowering the same, so that byturning the reel so as tosuccessively bring the racks of impaled checkershorizontally underneaththe latter can be readily immersed in the liquid.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure I is a vertical section" showing thechecker-holder and the needle-rack in the act of being forced down uponthe former- Fig. II is a plan of Fig. I with a portion of theneedle-frame broken away. Fig. III is an end elevation of the reel andthe basin containing'thc enameling -liquid. Fig. IV is a fragmentaryplan view of. the reel, showing one of the needle-frames inplacethereon.

Like letters designate like parts in each of the figures.

A is a rectangular rack, constructed with recesses or pockets at,preferablyof angular form, as shown, which adapts them to receive blocksof different sizes. 0 is a board or frame,

corresponding in size with the rack A, and proyided with projectingneedles, 0, arranged to correspond with the pockets or recesses in therack A. The pockets in-the rack A being filled with the blocks preparedfor enameling, the needle-frame G is placed over the rack with theneedles pointed downward and resting with their points on the summit ofthe checker-block, [as shown in-Fig.-I. The needle-frame being retainedagainst lateral displacement by suitable guides or standards, 0, isforced down upon the checkers by apress or any other suitable means with'suiiicient force to cause the needles to penetrate the blocks, so thatwhen the needle-frame is removed the blocks will adhere to the needles.F is a horizontal reel, provided with polygonal heads of such size thateach side or face of the reel will nearly correspond in size with .oneof the needle-frames, which, when filled with impaled blocks, are slidin place between suitable guides, f, at the angles of the reel with theneedles and blocks projecting out ward, as clearly shown in Figs. IIIand IV..

The shaft of the reel is supported in hearings in any usual manner,andi's provided at its end with a pulley, n, or other suitable means, bywhich motion may be imparted to the reel. G is a rectangular pan orbasin, arranged underneath the reel, and resting upon any suitableadjustable support. As shown in the drawing, this support consists oflevers, h h having their fulcrums in the tops of standardst' i, withtheir inner ends united by a slotted j oint, so

as to permit of the necessary movement of the levers.

These levers, from their pointofjunction, are connected by suitablelinks or strapsto a foot-lever, j, underneath.- By pressing down on thisfoot-leverth'e inner ends of the levers it will be pulled downward,while the outer ends thereof, made sufliciently broad to properlysupport the basin,'will be forced upward, and the pan or basin Gelevated accord ingly.

The reel being filled with needle-frames and blocks, as above described,and the pan G supplied with the required paint, varnish, or enamelingliquid, the reel is adjusted so that one of the frames will behorizontally underneath, as shown in Fig. III. By depressing thefoot-lever j the pan G is elevated, and the impaled blocks immersed inthe liquid contained therein. The pan is now lowered, and

the blocks allowed'to drain for a moment,

when the reel is turned so as to bring its next face and the needle-racksecured thereto undcrneath, when the enameling process is repeated, andso on until all of the blocks have been thus treated. The reel is nowset slowly in motion, by which the drying of the blocks is facilitated,while, at the same time, the paint or enamel is prevented from settlingand collecting in drops, thereby insuring a uniform distribution of theenamel over the surface of the blocks and a rapid drying of the same.

If preferred, the checkers impaled on the needle-frames may be dipped byhand into the varnish or enameling liquid before being adjusted on thereel, thereby dispensing with the adjustable basin G.

It is manifest that our improved apparatus may be employed for treatingblocks of various shapes and sizes, by simply making the pockets tocorrespond therewith.

By meansyof our improved apparatus it is obvious that small blocks, suchas checkers, dominoes, 850., are made of, can be coated with paint,varnish, or enamel with great rap idity and in the most perfect mannerwithout their surfaces being marred or disfigured by handling, orby oneblock coming in contact with another before'the enamel becomes dry,thereby effecting a great saving in the cost of manufacturing articlesof the above character.

We claim as our invention- 1. The combination of the receiving-rack A aand the needle-frame O a, substantially as and for the purposehereinbefore set forth.

2. The combination of the needle-frame O c of the reel F, adapted toreceive the former, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

3. The combination, with the reel F and needle-frame O c, of thevertically-adjustable receptacle G, for the paint or other enamelingliquid, substantially as hereinbefore set forth;

' I, SMITH HYATT.

J. W. HYATT. G. M.HYATT. Witnesses:

W. W. Nnwooirn, IRVING NEWGOMB.

